Monthly Archives: January 2015

Pulling off yet another genius move, Father John Misty just announced his very own (and crap-sounding) SAP – Streamline Audio Protocol: “I am pleased to introduce SAP, a new signal-to-audio process by which popular albums are “sapped” of their performances, original vocal, atmosphere and other distracting affectations so the consumer can decide quickly and efficiently [...]

This weekend more than 50 national and international designers, artists, and illustrators will present their creations at the 5th edition of the Berlin Graphic Days, taking place at Urban Spree in Berlin. A great chance to not only see, but also buy unique pieces of art, screen printing posters, T-shirts, books, paintings and a lot [...]

We keep hearing only good things about Printed Matter’s East Coast version of the renowned mother of all book fairs, and given the grim weather outside our windows, we certainly wish we were there right now. But at least our fine adventure in print will be, courtesy of our friends at Georgiev Trinder Curatorial, who [...]

Dear Friends,
in 1991, River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves, portraying two street prostitutes in My Own Private Idaho, took us on a trip to the dark side of the USA – a seedy, disturbing and vulnerable place entirely at odds with the great American Dream. It also launched one of Hollywood’s most unusual and distinct cinematic [...]

Admittedly, there is probably no one who has featured as often in our music column as Flying Lotus. But what can we do if the man continues to churn out the most impressive videos, one after the other? Point in case is his latest offering for Coronus, the Terminator, following a dying man through his [...]

In the (post)digital era, our notion of time and ‘event’ is contradictory. As we all know, the heinous crimes of extremist group ISIS are devastating… The videos they publish online make the evil act, create a new ‘now’. The more we watch the videos, the more people they kill digitally – the event of death [...]

If you observe end of the year Google search term tallies, you’d see some of 2014’s most searched fashion argot were by healthgoth and athleisure, the toned alternative to nineties trends. The list topper was, of course, the beast commonly known as normcore. Manifested even on the runway by designers such as Rick Owens and Heikki Salonen, the term [...]

The Truth About Everything is the new group show opening tomorrow afternoon at Erratum Galerie, comprising works by artists Kandis Williams, GeoVanna Gonzalez, Mükerrem Tuncay and Mosa.
Erratum is a small and independent gallery in the basement of the backyard of a building complex in Kreuzberg, which opened its doors in 2013. The space is run [...]

The never-ending surge in independent publishing also has not spared that oldest genre of magazines that seemed long lost to the Internet: the erotic journal. With a good dozen of titles on titillating pleasures, Odiseo by the ever excellent Barcelona-based design practice Folch Studio sticks out.
In a refreshing modern take on the virtues of Playboy [...]